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Bill Winlerton Quits
Work After 51 years
SASKATOON, SASK. — Bill Winterton,
manager of the Famous Players Capitol
here for many years, has retired after a total
of 51 years in the industry, 31 of them with
PPC. He has been succeeded at the Capitol
by Reg Plumb, for some years manager of
the Daylight.
Douglas Winterton, Bill's son, who has
been supervisor of three Manitoba units of
Western Theatres, has been named manager
of the Daylight.
The elder Winterton, well-known throughout
the industry, has served several terms as
president of the Saskatchewan Motion Picture
Exhibitors Ass'n and has been on several
occasions the MPEA delegate to the annual
meetings of the National Committee of
Motion Picture Exhibitors Ass'ns of Canada
and the Motion Picture Industry Council of
Canada.
Winterton, who was bom in Leicester,
England, entered show business at the age
of 13, singing with a touring troupe. After
five years on tour, he and his mother and
sister came to Saskatoon. He was named a
conductor of a George M. Cohan show touring
the American west in 1911 soon after his
arrival here. The following year he became a
pit musician at the Empire Theatre here and
a producer of local shows. In 1925, he went
to the Daylight, which then was playing
silent films. He has remained with Famous
Players ever since.
CBC Approves License
For Kamloops TV Unit
OTTAWA—The Canadian Broadcasting
Corp. has adopted a policy intended to meet
the competition of closed-circuit television
by encouragirit; the establishment of small
TV stations in centers not covered by the
governments video network.
The CBC board of governors has authorized
the granting of a license for the first
of the small privately owned TV stations at
Kamloops, B. C, where a move had been
made for a community-antenna service by an
independent company which, it was reported
here, intended to operate a closed circuit for
showing motion pictures and programs from
the U. S.
The Kamloops station will have a 100-watt
transmitter with a range of three miles and
will use canned programs from the CBC.
Advance Ticket Sales Big
For 'Commandments' Bow
TORONTO—Manager Tom Daley of the
University said the mail orders in advance
of "The Ten Commandments," scheduled
to open its Canadian premiere November 23,
has been so heavy that an extra boxoffice
was opened November 8 at the theatre to
handle the demand.
Daley said a matinee performance would
be held on opening day instead of a first
showing at night and there would be no
splash trimmings for launching the picture
because of its religious theme.
Robert Wilder, author of "Written on the
Wind," will screenplay Paramount's "A
Handful of Men."
TORONTO
J^anager Len Bishop wants everybody to
know that Elvis Presley is coming to
Shea's in "Love Me Tender," which could
be the very last picture at the time-honored
theatre. On the bare sidewall of Shea's, due
to be torn down in February, there is a
huge cutout of the rock and roll star, possibly
. . Barry Carnon, manager of
50 feet high .
the Hyland, has arranged for "movie night"
November 22 under the auspices of the
women's committee of the Toronto Mendelssohn
choir as a start for the Canadian premiere
of "A Lamp Is Heavy," which deals
with nursing sisters.
The house committee of Variety Tent 28
has had a special Christmas greeting card
printed for the use of barkers. Revenue from
the sale of the cards will be turned over to
the Variety Village school fund . . . William
M. Holtby, builder of early theatres and
special buildings in Toronto and district, died
at his home after a brief illness in his 87th
year.
Lloyd Taylor, former supervisor of Famous
Players drive-ins, is the new manager of the
Palace at Guelph, Ont., succeeding Herb
Chappell, who was transferred to the Capitol,
Sarnia, from which Hammy Bowes resigned
to go into another line of business . . . Manager
Wilf Larose of the Odeon Palace, St.
Catharines, had the National Ballet of Canada
for a stage performance Thursday night
(8) . . . For the final night of the Star-Top
Drive-In at London, Ont., everybody was admitted
free in observance of appreciation
night . . . Arthur Godfrey made appearances
eight nights at Toronto's Royal Winter Fair.
OTTAWA
por the holdover engagement of "The Solid
Gold Cadillac" at the Elgin, Manager
Ernie Warren had direct competition from
the Ottawa Little Theatre where the same
comedy was presented as a stage play by the
Drama League. It was held over, too . . . The
Ottawa district is down to one drive-in, the
Auto-Sky on the Baseline road, an independent
enterprise, following the closing for the
season of the Britannia, a unit of 20th Century
Theatres.
John West, manager for years of the Savoy
at Cardinal, died at Brockville General Hospital.
The funeral was held from his home
last Saturday. He was born at White Plains,
N. Y., in 1878 and moved to eastern Ontario
as a young man. The survivors are his wife,
two daughters and four grandchildren, all of
Cardinal . Famous Players Capitol
had a break in its film policy Tuesday and
Wednesday nights (13,14) for performances
of the National Ballet of Canada. The next
in the series of stage concerts at the Capitol
is scheduled for December 13 with the appearance
of Maureen Forrester, contralto.
Tito Gobbi, baritone, also has been booked
for a December concert.
The Odeon is having an added cultural
attraction in the exhibition of paintings by
Tony Brunner in the lobby and foyer through
arrangements with Manager Jim Chalmers
National Film Board sponsored a
free show of documentary and other short
subjects November 9 in the theatre of the
National Research Council here.
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